Goldsmith, Kenneth
Uncreative Writing
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231149914
- author:
- Goldsmith, Kenneth
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 20.98 x 14.07 x 1.27 centimetres
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Kenneth Goldsmith explores new ways of thinking about writing and language in the digital age. He examines how writers can move beyond creating new texts and instead manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct existing ones. Goldsmith's concept of uncreative writing is rooted in a tradition that dates back to the early twentieth century, when writers like Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol valued the process of text construction as much as the final product. In this book, Goldsmith extends this tradition into the digital realm, looking at techniques such as Google searches to create poetry, courtroom testimony appropriation, and robo-poetics. By exploring these new methods, Goldsmith offers insights into identity and meaning-making in the digital environment.
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